94548 - If people paste a very long comment, suggest (or create) an attachment instead

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130011

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Markus Gerstel]

As you can see at the mentioned url [e-mail] added a 63k
comment (a crash report). It is rather disturbing because
 - everyone got a 63k mail
 - bug-page load time increases for no reasonable reason
 - since the bug-page is full of unneccessary information you cannot find the
end of the one or the begin of another submission.

Maybe we should consider
 A) A maximum of lines, bytes, etc for a submission - if larger then it may only
be used as attachement
 B) No maximum of lines, bytes, etc but Mozilla displays only the first 100
lines/4000 bytes, etc. and a -Read more- link

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This is definitely a good idea.

Comment 2

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

this is much needed

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

correcting version field lost in product move

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72184 ***

Comment 5

[Markus Gerstel]

This bug is in no way connected to the abilities of the backend database. It is
about showing only part of the comment, or restricting the maximum length of a
comment to a reasonable size. This bug doesn't cover attachements.

Reopening.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I'll concur with the reporter.  Although they're closely related, these are
actually two separate issues.  Bug 72184 is dealing with making sure we don't
send the database more than it can handle.  This bug is about enforcing an
arbitrary limit (which may be smaller than what the database can take) from the
front end to avoid sending big emails to people.

Comment 7

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Theres a separate bug on attachments, and bug 72184 does make this a Param...

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Enhancements which don't currently have patches on them which are targetted at
2.18 are being retargetted to 2.20 because we're about to freeze for 2.18. 
Consideration will be taken for moving items back to 2.18 on a case-by-case
basis (but is unlikely for enhancements)

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bugzilla 2.20 feature set is now frozen as of 15 Sept 2004.  Anything flagged
enhancement that hasn't already landed is being pushed out.  If this bug is
otherwise ready to land, we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis, please set the
blocking2.20 flag to '?' if you think it qualifies.

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning bugs that I'm not actively working on to the default component owner
in order to try to make some sanity out of my personal buglist.  This doesn't
mean the bug isn't being dealt with, just that I'm not the one doing it.  If you
are dealing with this bug, please assign it to yourself.

Comment 12

[bigstijn]

Duplicate of bug 130011 ? (or the other way around ?)